Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] be said [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Relatives from east London travelled to the funeral via Upton Park , where they were said to ‘ overwhelmed ’ by West Ham supporters ' floral tributes to Moore , who died last week from cancer at the age of 51 . |
| 2 | In 1942 he was persuaded to go into hospital , where he was said to be schizophrenic . |
| 3 | The policeman gave chase but one of the suspects turned and shot him twice in the back w He was rushed to Homerton Hospital where he was said to be in a serious condition early today . |
| 4 | There has been a series of decisions over the past 50 years which , although they are said to be cases of estoppel are not really such . |
| 5 | Although it was said in a jocular fashion it was too much for Maura . |
| 6 | This is obviously a safer course than renewing the writ although it was said in Sisknys v Hanley ( 1982 ) The Times , 26 May that the fact that the plaintiff 's solicitor could have but did not use this substituted service procedure was not a good reason for refusing renewal . |
| 7 | Gordon Brown , who has been squeezed out of the leadership race by Smith ( although he is said to be consoled by the fact that he is ten years younger and can wait a generation ) will have an important contribution to make . |
| 8 | It is in a rather different sense that it is said of the wicked that they will soon fade like the grass ( Ps 37.2 ) , for there it is not an inbuilt weakness of the human constitution that accounts for the imminent death of the wicked but a fate peculiar to wrongdoers . |
| 9 | Edwin and Robert Grabhorn , who founded the Grabhorn Press in San Francisco in 1920 , worked so amicably together that it was said of them : ‘ When Ed 's away the shop goes to pieces ; when Bob 's away , Ed goes to pieces ’ ; but it would be a mistake to think that relationships between printers were always so harmonious . |
| 10 | Later , in England , it occurred to her that it might have been said ironically , but by then she had forgotten the context and intonation of it , could only remember that it was said under hot sun outside the Maison Carrée in Nîmes , where the air was fluent and the stones shone . |
| 11 | He left during pre-production and it is said on the South Bank that nobody even dared tell Birt 's successor , the more ruggedly populist Greg Dyke , of the project 's existence . |
| 12 | Naltrexone is an anti-euphoriant which masks any pleasure from subsequent use of opiate drugs and it is said to be non-addictive . |
| 13 | The term " Urgonian " has become almost a dirty word in Cretaceous stratigraphy , for it is not one of the internationally accepted stage names and it is said to be a diachronous , southern facies . |
| 14 | This was said to me , not by me , at a seminar on joint planning the other week and it was said over lunch by the director of another voluntary organisation which shall remain nameless . |
| 15 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 16 | As a young man he was a charming and lively companion , and it was said of him that ‘ a person more invariably gentle , kind , considerate and affectionate , did not exist . ’ |
| 17 | Bror Blixen , Karen Blixen 's husband , had syphilis and it was said to be common among the Masai . |
| 18 | Thus the following , said on Thursday , can only be referring to next Thursday ( or perhaps some more remote Thursday ) , otherwise the speaker should have said today : ( 58 ) I 'll see you on Thursday The same holds if it is said on Wednesday , due to pre-emptive tomorrow . |
| 19 | If it is said of a barrister that he has refused to appear for an unsavoury criminal , the ordinary reader may applaud , but his professional reputation is lowered amongst colleagues who understand the story to mean that he has betrayed his ethical duty to appear for all who seek his services . |
| 20 | If it is said in the context of a vicar with a bereaved family who are deeply religious it can mean , " Yes indeed , this will really help us " . |
| 21 | If it is said in a situation of trouble or danger at sea or at war it can be received , even by people who are not religious , as " Perhaps there is something in it . |
| 22 | ( Prove you did n't print that , and if it was said of someone else , that you were n't tacitly implying it of me ) |
| 23 | If it was said in the hope of catching you out you will at least have demonstrated a calm approach and an ability not to panic . |
| 24 | But she 's said to be brave , tough , and very bright . ’ |
| 25 | The Nairacs , now in their eighties , declined to comment , but they 're said to be hopeful that one day they WILL be able to give their son a proper burial . |
| 26 | I have not tried the Nitragon myself but they are said to be very good . |
| 27 | But it was said by many doubters that British Airways could never be privatised . |
| 28 | To say that someone votes Conservative is not a libel — unless it be said of a Labour MP , and in consequence , would be defamatory in its implication of personal and political hypocrisy . |
| 29 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 30 | Two medical practitioners , neither of whom previously knew the patient , recommended her detention in hospital because she was said to be a paranoid schizophrenic with signs of aggressive , overactive and irrational behaviour . |